31 May, 2016

Russia and
Greece have common values, including Orthodoxy, Russian President
Vladimir Putin said ahead of his visit to Athens. Athens may help
Moscow break Europe’s unity against Russia.

By using
"religious diplomacy" Moscow wants to break Europe’s
unity against Russia because Greece has long opposed Western
anti-Russian sanctions, an article in the French newspaper Le Figaro
said.

The Russian
leader arrived in Greece for a two-day visit on Friday. During Friday
talks with Putin, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that
strengthening ties between Moscow and Athens is the "strategic
choice" of the Greek nation.

"Vladimir
Putin is the president of a country where the constitution proclaims
the separation of church and state. At the same time, he is a
religious person, taking into account his planned visit to Mount
Athos, one of the most important orthodox holy places," the
article read.

Vladimir
Putin’s cooperation with Tsipras may break the anti-Russian
unanimity within the European Union. Since he assumed his post
Tsipras has repeatedly criticized Western sanctions against Russia.

Moreover,
the Russian leader underscored that Russia and Greece have common
civilization values and Orthodox culture. This year, Russia will
celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Russian monastery on Mount
Athos. Russian Orthodox Church leader Kirill will join Vladimir Putin
during his visit to Athos.

For the
first time, Putin visited Athos during his visit to Greece in
September 2005. He was the first Russian leader to visit the holy
place.

The Russian
president and Patriarch Kirill have a common mission during their
visit to Greece, the article noted.

While the
IMF’s research team has for many years chipped away at mainstream
economic thinking, a short, accessible paper makes an even more
frontal challenge. It’s caused such a stir that the Financial Times
featured it on its front page. We’ve embedded it at the end of this
post and encourage you to read it and circulate it.

The article
cheekily flags the infamous case of the Chicago Boys, Milton
Friedman’s followers in Pinochet’s Chile, as having been falsely
touted as a success. If anything, the authors are too polite in
describing what a train wreck resulted. A plutocratic land grab and
speculation-fueled bubble led quickly to a depression, forcing
Pinochet to implement Keynesian policies, as well as rolling back
labor “reforms,” to get the economy back on its feet.

The papers
describes three ways in which neoliberal reforms do more harm than
good.

It was
recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented
an Orwellian new program that targets innocent citizens based on
indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry
out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like Minority Report, a
complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in
the city, and use private data about each person to determine whether
or not they could be a potential criminal.

Once an
innocent civilian has been labeled as a threat, they are then
notified that they have been marked as a potential criminal and that
they are now under police surveillance.

This
disturbing program has quietly been in place for over three years,
and in that time, government agents have visited the homes of more
than 1,300 innocent people who had high numbers on the list, to
inform them that they are now regarded as potential criminals.
According to the New York Times, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson
says that officials this year are stepping up those visits, with at
least 1,000 more people.

27 May, 2016

The fierce
resistance of the French people against the neoliberal onslaught
culminates. From RT
:

A major French union has warned
Paris that the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer tournament opening could
be disrupted unless it backs down on contested labor law reforms.
It comes as tens of thousands of people hit the streets again to
protest the legislation. The warning on Thursday by the hardline
CGT union took aim at the 2016 UEFA European Championship (known
as Euro 2016), scheduled to begin in France on June 10. The match
will be played at various stadiums throughout the country,
including Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, and Paris. But if the
CGT has its way, those games will only be taking place if Paris
agrees to back down on a highly contested labor law reform.

[...]

tens of thousands of people hit the
streets in protest on Thursday, leading to clashes between police
and demonstrators, Reuters reported. [...] Protesters also
aimed to choke off power and fuel supplies and paralyze the public
transport network on Thursday, with employees halting their work
at oil refineries, nuclear power plants, and railways.
Demonstrators also erected road blocks and burned wooden pallets
and tires at major ports and near key distribution hubs.

[...]

despite employee walk-outs, street
demonstrations, and threats from unions, French Prime Minister
Manuel Valls has rejected calls to scrap the part of the labor
reform law which has most angered the CGT. That section would
allow companies to opt out of national obligations on labor
protection if they adopt in-house deals on pay and conditions with
the consent of the majority of employees.

[...]

The Thursday protests are the latest
in a string of demonstrations in recent weeks, in which 350 police
officers and several protesters have been injured and more than
1,300 people arrested.

It seems
that France will not be a "piece of cake" for the global
oligarchy and its neo-Feudal plans:

[...]

- The experiment in Greece continues
as planned. Once we bring salaries at the level we want, and
destroy the welfare state, we will continue to the rest of the
eurozone.

- Well, alright with the PIIGS, but
how about France, Germany and the entire north? People will never
accept such policies there.

- They will. We will start with
Italy and Spain. We will order rating agencies to attack, exclude
them from markets and throw them to the ECB trap. They will be
forced to take similar measures, as Greece did, in order to
receive liquidity. Then, we will attack France and Germany.

- There will be huge riots!

- We will try to limit them. We've
already forced governments in Greece and Spain to criminalize
protests.

It only took
a few hours or days for the provisional government of the
coup-plotters to install themselves and demonstrate their intentions
through the composition of its cabinet, the plans it has announced
and its public declarations.

The Senate
only forced president Dilma Rousseff to temporarily step aside and
provisionally installed Michel Temer. According to some lawyers, the
constitution stipulates that the vice-president cannot reshuffle the
cabinet. He should be limited to administrative acts until the merits
of the case against Dilma are decided.But the last thing that the
coup-plotters and their accomplices in the Federal Supreme Court are
doing is respecting the constitution. At the moment, anything goes.
As [former president Ignacio] Lula [da Silva] said, it is as if “you
went on holidays and left someone to provisionally look after your
house, and they sold it and remodelled everything inside.”

The cabinet
of the coup-plotters is a joke. A genuine festival of thieves. All
men, white, hypocrites and rotten. The Rede Globo [media
conglomerate] campaigned intensely over the last few months,
insinuating that president Dilma should be deposed due to the levels
of corruption in her government. The petty bourgeoisie that mobilised
in the streets clamoured for the return of the military dictatorship
to put an end to the corrupt PTers.

Well, among
Temer’s newly appointed ministers, there are no less than seven who
are currently facing accusations as a result of Operation Lava Jato
(Car Wash) and other anti-corruption investigations. As politician
Ciro Gomes said, “they handed over the government to a trade
union of criminals” and no one had the courage to put them on
trial.

The
measures announced or already taken by the coup government are a
tragedy for the life and future of the Brazilian people. But they are
coherent with its neoliberal plan to reduce the cost of labour, hand
over our resources, privatize what they can and redirect public funds
that were going to education, health and social security to business
owners. As the investigator and economist Marcio Pochmann warned,
“what is at stake is the private appropriation of public funds
that are the equivalent of up to 10% of GDP!”

They
have already proposed a provisional measure that allows for the
potential privatization of all state companies, such as Petrobras,
electricity companies, ports and airports. They will probably start
with the electricity companies and the pre-salt reserves – recently
found reserves of deep-water oil. In response, there will be a
national protest on June 6 in Rio de Janiero to denounce this attack
on our national sovereignty.

In terms
of social security, they want to impose a minimum retirement age of
65 for men and women in the countryside and the city, and a pension
no longer tied to the minimum wage. This would be a tragedy for the
working class.

In
terms of healthcare, they have announced cuts to the Universal Health
System (SUS) and the end of the More Doctors program, that covers 50
million poor Brazilians living in areas where no white coats had gone
before. They are even talking about cutting the Emergency Mobile
Attention System (SAMU).

In
terms of interest rates, nothing has been said about the R$500
billion designated each year to bankers through the payment of the
internal debt. This is why they put two bankers in charge of looking
after the chicken coop: Henrique Meirelles (Minister of the Treasury)
and Illan Goldfain (Central Bank), whose family lives in Israel
because they view Brazil as a dangerous country…. Poor us, the 210
million humans who live here.

In
agriculture and land reform, as well as the social measures outlined
above that affect the poorest in the countryside, they had no
problems with closing the Ministry for Agricultural Development and
its programs that attended to peasants.

We
can all agree that the coup government has been didactic. It has made
it clear to the people what its interests are and how it will act.
That is why all the popular movements and organisations that are part
of the Popular Brazil Front and the People Without Fear Front, along
with other coalitions, have united behind the slogan “No to the
coup, Temer Out!” None of us will accept a process of negotiation
or sit at the table with representatives of an illegitimate and
unpatriotic coup government.

Thankfully,
Brazilian society and the international community has quickly
understood the nature of this illegitimate government. And the slogan
“No to the coup, Temer out!” has reverberated in numerous events,
public acts and ceremonies.

Outside
the country, hundreds of protests have occurred in front of Brazilian
embassies. The international media that continues to follow the
manual of listening to both sides, demoralized the local media by
denouncing the character of the coup in editorials and news items.

Personalities
from around the world have spoken out. Pope Francis drew attention to
the “soft coups” underway in some countries, although he did not
directly cite Brazil. The respected US academic Noam Chomsky, as well
as Nobel prize winners such as Adolfo Perez Esquivel and Rigoberta
Menchu, and even artists at the Cannes film festival have expressed
their solidarity and denounced the coup.

In
Brazil, public protests have multiplied as diverse sectors take to
the streets, including high school students and artists and
intellectuals who for the first time occupied more than 20 offices of
the National Arts Foundation (Funarte) across the country, forcing
the coup-plotters to reinstate the Ministry of Culture. Young people
have returned to the streets to protest.

And
where are those who supported the coup? The “greens and yellows”
against corruption? They are embarrassed, at home, as they helped
hand over the cheese to the Jucas, Padilhas, Gedeis and other
specialists in public funds. They have disappeared.

Certainly,
from now on the popular mobilisations will increase in size and
numbers of sectors mobilized. The Popular Brazil Front has organized
a calendar of mobilisations and activities across the country for the
next few months. Within the trade union movement, the drums have
begun to sound in preparation for a general strike, paralysing
productive activities in opposition to the measures of the coup
government.

Moreover,
solidarity with president Dilma is increasing, despite the various
criticisms we have made in regards to the past few years of her term.
She has been invited to participate in numerous mass activities in
Brazil, where we will loudly and clearly say that 54 million voters –
the majority of the Brazilian people – elected her to govern the
country until 2018.

Amidst a
global media blackout of Anonymous’ ongoing worldwide attacks on
the “corrupt banking cartels,” the hacking collective has now
taken down some of the most prestigious institutions in global
governance. OpIcarus has recently taken offline the World Bank, the
New York Stock Exchange, five U.S. Federal Reserve Banks and the
Vatican.

After
announcing a global call to arms against the “corrupt global
banking cartel,” the hacker collective, known as Anonymous, in
conjunction with Ghost Squad Hackers, have taken over 30 central
banks offline, including striking many targets at the heart of the
Western imperialist empire.

An Anonymous
press release explained the intention behind the operation:

“The
banks have been getting away with murder, fraud, conspiracy, war
profiteering, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, have
put millions of people out on the street without food or shelter and
have successfully bought all our governments to help keep us
silenced. We represent the voice of the voiceless. We are uniting to
make a stand. The central banks which were attacked in recent days
were attacked to remind people that the biggest threat we face to an
open and free society is the banks. The bankers are the problem and
#OpIcarus is the solution.”

One factory has "reduced
employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the
introduction of robots", a government official told the
South China Morning Post. Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the
Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow
suit."

China is investing heavily in a
robot workforce. In a statement to the BBC, Foxconn Technology
Group confirmed that it was automating "many of the
manufacturing tasks associated with our operations" but
denied that it meant long-term job losses.

[...]

Since September 2014, 505 factories
across Dongguan, in the Guangdong province, have invested 4.2bn
yuan (£430m) in robots, aiming to replace thousands of workers.

[...]

Economists have issued dire warnings
about how automation will affect the job market, with one report,
from consultants Deloitte in partnership with Oxford University,
suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years.

Former McDonald's chief executive Ed
Rensi recently told the US's Fox Business programme a minimum-wage
increase to $15 an hour would make companies consider robot
workers. "It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm
than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an
hour bagging French fries," he said.

Adidas
unveils new factory in Germany that will use machines to make shoes
instead of humans in Asia. From Guardian
:

Adidas, the German maker of
sportswear and equipment, has announced it will start marketing
its first series of shoes manufactured by robots in Germany from
2017.

More than 20 years after Adidas
ceased production activities in Germany and moved them to Asia,
chief executive Herbert Hainer unveiled to the press the group’s
new prototype “Speedfactory” in Ansbach, southern Germany. The
4,600-square-metre plant is still being built but Adidas opened it
to the press, pledging to automate shoe production – which is
currently done mostly by hand in Asia – and enable the shoes
to be made more quickly and closer to its sales outlets.

[...]

Large-scale production will begin in
2017 and Adidas was planning a second “Speed Factory” in the
United States in the same year, said Hainer.

[...]

In the longer term Adidas is
planning to build robot-operated factories in Britain or in
France, and could even produce the shirts of Germany’s national
football team in its home country, said Hainer. The shoes made in
Germany would sell at a similar price to those produced in Asia,
he said.

Adidas is facing rising
production costs in Asia where it employs around one million
workers. Arch-rival Nike is also developing its robot-operated
factory.

Yanis Varoufakis in his article "What if the
capital of future doesn't need us?", describes what he saw in
Austin-Texas and what that means:

“While
I was watching from my window in Austin-Texas, I saw a big cloud
of dust deep in horizon. Two days ago, I was walking in that area
and I was surprised by the view of the big factory where
bulldozers and machines were continuously working, producing the
dust. From the front side of the building under construction it
was obvious that (fortunately) they were not building a new trade
center or apartment blocks. No, it was a big industrial center.”

“Although
I didn't notice it the first time, after a few seconds I realised
that something was missing from this factory: people!
Specifically, I counted three. All of them were wearing helmets
and protection suits and were located in a small office in a space
outside with a few computers, while they were covered by a tent
like those used by the army. Ten bulldozers, three cranes and more
or less ten moving tools, at least from what I could see, were
moving without drivers, operators, workers generally.”

“When
I returned to my office, I went straight to find a colleague who
knows well what's going on. He informed me that the workplace I
saw, was the new factory of Apple to produce MacBook Pro. It was
true that, it was constructed through almost complete
automatization. The materials had been selected through a way with
which, the automatic machines - therefore robots connected to
eachother through a local wireless network (intranet) - to be able
to construct without human interference - even the hydraulic
structure of the building will be constructed by plumpers-robots.
A factory that under normal conditions should employ thousands of
workers is functioning with the presence of less than one hundred
souls.”

“I asked him about the move of
Apple to produce computers in America, by bringing back in the US
the production from China for the first time after decades. 'How's
that?' And the answer was the expected one, although quite
impressive: 'Wages are of no
importance. The export of productive processes from America to
China (off-shoring) was only an intermediate stage. The production
has returned to America, but not the jobs. The new factory of
Apple, not only is constructed without American workers' sweat,
but will also produce MacBook Pro through complete automatization,
without hiring Texans. Welcome to the New, Brave World',
ended with a smile, referring obviously to the Brave New World of
Aldous Huxley.”

The general conclusions from the
report The
Future of Jobs, of the 2016 World Economic
Forum, leave little room for optimistic thoughts about the future.
They reflect what already most of us have realized: that the
combination of the current socio-economic model with the rapid
hyper-automation of production, lead to further imbalance and
inequality in favor of the very few. [...] The study estimates
that there will be no “widespread societal upheaval—at
least up until the year 2020”, due to the takeover of
jobs by artificial intelligence, but is this realy a reason not to
worry seriously? Think about it: 2020 is only four years from now!
Say, at the end of the new US presidency.

... the loss of jobs in other
sectors due to hyper-automation creates oversupply of available
workforce. The machines are pushing towards a fierce competition
between the workers who seek desperately for a job in sectors that
are still occupied by human labor. But this is only an
intermediate stage as robots will soon occupy these positions too.
[...] The description in Oxfam's report is characteristic. Humans
are denied even basic needs and pushed towards robotic behavior.
The phrase “Workers are reduced to pieces of the machine,
little more than the body parts that hang, cut, trim, and load
...”, shows characteristically that workers in the US do not
have to compete with other cheap labor abroad anymore, but with a
workforce which appears to be unbeatable: hyper-automated
machines.

Today,
Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 11:30am CEST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is
being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account
for 2/3rds of global GDP.

This release
includes a previously unknown annex to the TiSA core chapter on
"State Owned Enterprises" (SOEs), which imposes
unprecedented restrictions on SOEs and will force majority owned SOEs
to operate like private sector businesses. This corporatisation of
public services - to nearly the same extent as demanded by the
recently signed TPP - is a next step to privatisation of SOEs on the
neoliberal agenda behind the "Big Three" (TTIP,TiSA,TPP).

Other
documents in todays release cover updated versions of annexes to TiSA
core chapters that were published by WikiLeaks in previous releases;
these updates show the advances in the confidential negotiations
between the TiSA parties on the issues of Domestic Regulation, New
Provisions, Transparency, Electronic Commerce, Financial Services,
Telecommunication Services, Professional Services and the Movement of
Natural Persons. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses on some
of these documents.

The annexes
on Domestic Regulation, Transparency and New Provisions have further
advanced towards the "deregulation" objectives of big
corporations entering overseas markets. Local regulations like store
size restrictions or hours of operations are considered an obstacle
to achieve "operating efficiencies" of large-scale
retailing, disregarding their public benefit that foster livable
neighbors and reasonable hours of work for employees. The TiSA
provisions in their current form will establish a wide range of new
grounds for domestic regulations to be challenged by corporations -
even those without a local presence in that country.

The alliance between Podemos and
United Left makes them the chief left-wing force in Spanish electoral
politics. Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos and older left-wing
party Izquierda Unida, or United Left, announced Monday that they
have reached a preliminary agreement to run on a joint platform
before a general election on June 26.

In a statement read to the press,
party representatives said the alliance aimed to “recover the
country” in favor of the “working classes and social majorities.”
Both parties said they would consult their members on May 10 and 11
to formalize the arrangement.

Spain’s last election, in
December, failed to give any party enough seats to form a government,
and five months of talks among the parties have not led to a
governing coalition.

A survey released Friday showed
voters are still not inclined to revert to the two-party system that
has dominated Spanish politics for the past 40 years and are likely
instead to spread their votes among 10 different parties.The survey
also suggested Podemos was losing support before the coming election.
However, an alliance between Podemos and United Left would leave the
two parties with around 23 percent of the vote, making them the main
left-wing force, ahead of the once-dominant Socialists but behind the
conservative People’s Party of acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Another survey found that the
alliance would be the first choice for people under than 55.

The wave of revolutionary politics
that Bernie Sanders and his supporters are riding can be traced back
to George W. Bush. When Bush decided to Invade Iraq in 2003 he
ignited a counter protest movement of young activists that the
country had not seen since the Vietnam War. The activism continued
through the second Bush election when many felt inspired by Senator
John Kerry’s run for president as a well-known anti-war advocate. A
presidential run that failed for many reasons, one of which being
Kerry positioned himself as anti-war, yet voted in favor of the Iraq
invasion.

The movement continued to grow as
then Senator Barak Obama gained momentum and his “Yes We Can”
campaign slogan brought in young, energized voters that the country
desperately needed. However, it was Obama’s failure to be the
revolutionary politician he campaigned as they led to the biggest
revolutionary shift in the country as he decided not to give the boot
the oligarchy and instead bailed out the banks on Wall Street and big
business all over the country.

It was this failure that led to
the Occupy Wall Street movement as men and women, young and old had
had enough. The occupy movement forever changed the language
activists used when discussing wealth inequality. Suddenly everyone
was talking about the 99 percent, the one percent, and demanding that
student debt and rising healthcare costs be tackled once and for all.
The movement believed if we had trillions of dollars to invade
foreign countries, had billions of dollars to bail out fraudulent
bankers than we must have the money to take care of those suffering
and living in poverty.

It was the occupy movement that
opened the door for a Bernie Sanders campaign. A government that
still pandered to the capitalist class, that allowed the insurance
giants to mold the Affordable Care Act and leaving millions of
Americans with subpar insurance plans with premiums they cannot
afford to pay. It is not by accident that Sanders is using occupy
language at every campaign stop and in every debate. He genuinely
seems to care about wealth inequality and found the ability to turn
that into a presidential run that continued occupy’s work of
keeping these topics in the minds of every voter, every day.

The economic conditions created by
Obama’s administration and the inactive Republican-led congress
created the perfect storm that allowed Sanders to rally millions of
voters to a cause that would usher in a significant change in the
country. Unfortunately, Sanders, a lifelong independent decided to
run for president as a Democrat, a party that worked overtime to
crush his chances of winning the party’s nomination and silencing
his revolutionary ideas. In a sense, when and if Sanders stands on
the podium at the Democratic National Convention and asks supporters
to rally behind Secretary Clinton he will be betraying his revolution
but that does not mean the revolution must come to an end.

Like the movements before, Sanders
movement will live well beyond his campaign and should live well
beyond what is likely his coming betrayal of the movement when he
endorses Hillary Clinton and remains a member of the
counter-revolutionary Democratic Party.

For the next stages of the
revolution to continue it will need to push beyond the limits the
Sanders campaign set. The revolution must be willing to look beyond
constraints of capitalism and stop looking for ways to put bandaids
on it and find ways to replace it instead.

Sanders made it clear he was not
interesting in making sure that workers owned the means of
production, but a movement beyond his should make that goal
paramount. Without empowering workers to own their own labor, the
revolution quickly loses steam as capitalists find new ways to
exploit that labor and beat the working class back into submission.

Further conditions created by the
ruling class have further prepared activists to ignite social change
as well. As the fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage grows, the
Republican and Libertarian Party’s have questioned the need for not
only an increase but for a minimum wage at all and the belief that
the market can do a better job of controlling income. The same
market-based argument is being made from the right for healthcare,
retirement, and social safety nets. The war on the working class is
growing though attacks on workers rights and unions though
right-to-work bills. These are the conditions predicted by Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels, and the far left has noticed. Activists need to
be inside factories, talking to workers, and working to build a real
and vocal coalition of supporters who are no longer willing to be
trampled on by the capitalist elite.

How the left responds to this and
its success in organizing a mass movement beyond Sanders will become
paramount to its success in the coming years. Its success cannot be
realized by listening to Sanders forthcoming Clinton endorsement and
joining the Democratic Party regardless of who they nominate. A
strategy of just not being Donald Trump or the Republican Party is
not going to excite change, it will only serve to usher in more of
the same, or under a Clinton administration, continue to steer the
country more to the right.

It is finally time for workers of
the world to unite and realize they don’t actually have anything to
lose and do, in fact, have the world to gain. It’s time to think
beyond Sanders and time to think beyond capitalism.

Unelected
Senate-imposed President Michel Temer has started to push ahead
with neoliberal economic reforms as scandal rocks his government,
announcing on Tuesday a neoliberal program aimed at reducing the
country’s debt and sparking economic growth.

Temer
announced that he plans to seek approval for a constitutional
amendment that would allow for the government to slash public
spending and cap expenditure increases before paying debts. The
Congress is set to vote on the proposed revision of fiscal targets
Tuesday, O Globo reported.

Without
delving into details, Temer gestured toward increased
privatization, a move that the right-wing opposition has long
pushed for while the progressive governments of suspended
President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva expanded social programs after more than a decade in office.

Temer also alluded to plans to shake
up the state oil company Petrobras, which likely means a move to
privatization. According to WikiLeaks cables, Temer’s
Senate-imposed Foreign Minister Jose Serra made promises to
foreign extractive companies like Chevron in 2009 that it would be
easy to push for legislative changes to open up offshore
exploration and drilling to multinational oil corporations.

The
undemocratic procedures through which Rousseff was forced to abandon
the leadership of the country are amazingly apparent, especially
after the latest revelations
through the transcripts that were published by the country's largest
newspaper, Folha de São Paulo.

Recall that
revelations concern secret conversations that took place in March,
just weeks before the impeachment vote in the lower house was held.
They show explicit plotting between the new planning minister
(then-senator), Romero Jucá, and former oil executive Sergio Machado
— both of whom are formal targets of the “Car Wash” corruption
investigation — as they agree that removing Dilma is the only means
for ending the corruption investigation. The conversations also
include discussions of the important role played in Dilma's removal
by the most powerful national institutions, including — most
importantly — Brazil's military leaders.

As the
infringement of the democratic processes is more than evident, the
neoliberal agents of the global plutocracy proceed in rapid moves to
secure their agenda before people start to realize what's really
going on. That's why they rush to implement immediately their plan to
sell off Brazil's public property and slash public spending.

The
onslaught of the neoliberal "Taliban" globally is more than evident.
Earlier, the European Financial Dictatorship (EFD)
forced its debt colony, Greece, to put the final signature on the
looting of country's
public property.

The forces
of neo-Feudalism are using every means to take the nation-states.
Financial and constitutional coups, closed banks, loyal to the big
interests officials in key positions and governments of technocrats,
transatlantic agreements to be voted under complete secrecy.

The
neoliberal "Taliban" have only one mission: establish the neoliberal
agenda everywhere, at any cost. Democracy is clearly under attack and
people should resist massively. Now, a global-scale alignment
of the progressive forces is more than urgent, otherwise the
Dystopian Feudalism of 21st century will become a reality, very soon.